Ehemaliger Microsoft-Ingenieur glaubt, dass Azure-Probleme auf die Abwanderung von Talenten zurückzuführen sind

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Cutting senior engineers and expecting better reliability is… an interesting strategy.

My heart bleeds for Microslop

I read his essay and he thinks really highly of himself. I promise you a 3Trillion company isn’t impacted by the lack of software quality and testing discipline. In the year he was there he claims to have rewritten multiple daemons meeting the quality standard he thinks is good, he sent an email to Azure CEO, then sent an email to Satya, and finally sent an email to the Board of Directors after the previous 2 emails did not get a response.

It is important you do not think of yourself as a savior for a multi-trillion dollar company. You’re not even a cog in the machine.

Exodus or excision?

I assure you Microsoft had problems for over 30 years

MBA’s are bad for business.

Azure has had problems since day one but yeah cut senior people things get out of control.

If it’s anything like my big tech employer….

They did a bunch of layoffs, made promotions impossible, pushed RTO policies, threatened stack ranking, mandated AI tools, shipped off tons of work to India and have limited raises to less than inflation…

Some of the best coworkers I had, genuinely, were already rich. They were making big tech, West coast salaries for years, and had some good luck with RSUs…. When all this happened they just kinda shrugged and said ‚Eh, why bother‘. Then a few of the most talented ones, they jumped ship, but the market is really rough – only really talented people can make the jump without a huge paycut.

I’m an okay developer. I was pretty good in the Midwest. I get stuff done, in reliable, but like, I’m just okay. I won’t leave because interviews are hard, and I don’t want to change health insurance and I’ve got children and all that jazz. So you get crappy devs like me who don’t leave, but also, have no incentive to work hard.

When I’m motivated, I’m okay. Now? I’m awful.

But the AI tool will generate some slop that makes a decent approximation of useful work and the team in India that took my old project is doing so badly, even I look good by comparison… And nobody wants to pick up ownership of anything, we are all just coasting until we either get laid off, or we feel working hard will be rewarded….but at this point, I have no good faith left. I’m not going to work hard because they promise that next year my performance will be rewarded.

Also, I’m responsible for a bunch of stuff I shouldn’t be. I am literally ‚on call‘ right now…we have had big name companies, literally paying multi-million dollar contracts for our product, and I’m the guy who gets paged at 2am to fix their problem… And I don’t know a thing about it and the team that did got laid off.

It’s absurd.

Ask our customers about how happy they are…we are delivering fewer features, with more bugs and our customer service is much much worse. We also have had more public outages.

But CEO swears AI is writing N% of our code and we are M% more efficient.

Man, the problem here is two-fold: first, high level engineers and managers leaving Microsoft, thus draining Microsoft of expertise; and second, high level engineers and managers from Microsoft getting jobs at other companies, thus infecting other companies with Microsoft’s work culture.

MBA = More Bad Advice

When layoffs are coming, the talented jump ship quick. Microsoft did several strings of layoffs, I guarantee every company that has done them multiple times recently has bled talent.

You mean the leopard ate its face?

Exodus….. Never heard layoffs called that before. 

Microsoft has had some of the lowest salaries among the big players for the last 10-15 years, but the perk was they have one of the best work/life balances. A lot of people that leave Microsoft come back to Microsoft eventually.

But now you have Microsoft cracking down on engineer perks and they are starting to overwork them like Amazon while badmouthing them at the same time (their CEO recently said software engineers would need to “reskill” because their jobs are going away). So now you have relatively crappy salaries, and low morale. So now getting paid less is a lot less appealing given the other perks of MSFT are going away.

The fucked up thing is they could change it today. If they held back a bit on datacenter spending or dipped into their hefty cash reserves, they could give current employees a big cash bonus and immediately lift morale. 

More MBAs, more ai, less software engineers. Profit?

AI will fix it